Leal-Villalpando RP, Alberto RJ, Báez-Lima MR

Language: Spanish
References: 4
Page: 39-46
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ABSTRACT

Liver transplantation is the only treatment modality for patients with end-stage liver disease. Just as liver transplantation has improved in terms of better immunosuppressive drugs, techniques and accumulated experience, progress in intensive care medicine and anesthesiology, so has the demand for liver grafts, which has not been met by supply. As a result, thousands of patients die each year on the waiting list. Split liver transplantation has been an important strategy to increase organ supply by creating two transplants from one graft, which is quite feasible to perform in Mexico in hospitals where there is experience in liver transplantation and thus decrease the time on the waiting list. Split liver transplantation offers an attractive way to increase the number of cadaveric grafts. An extended right lobe transplant was successfully performed at the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán".

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